Comparison of Chemstrip bG visual blood glucose method with Accu-Chek III monitor method for measuring blood glucose in broiler chicks

Comparison of Chemstrip bG visual blood glucose method with Accu-Chek III monitor method for measuring blood glucose in broiler chicks

The purposes of this study were to 1) measure blood glucose values in a flock of broiler chicks tentatively diagnosed as having spiking mortality syndrome (SMS), and 2) compare the blood glucose values using two methods: the Chemstrip bG visual method and the Chemstrip bG Accu-Chek III monitor metho...

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Published in:Avian diseases Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 432 - 435
Main Authors: Goodwin, Mark A., Bounous, Denise I., Brown, John, Fuchs, Debrah W.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States American Association of Avian Pathologists, Inc 01-04-1995
Subjects:
analytical methods
Animals
azucar en sangre
Blood
Blood glucose
Blood Glucose - analysis
blood sugar
Chickens - blood
Chicks
Correlation coefficients
diagnosis
diagnostic
diagnostico
Endocrine system diseases
Enteritis
hipoglicemia
hypoglycaemia
Hypoglycemia
hypoglycemie
measurement
medicion
mesure
mortalidad
mortalite
Mortality
Pathology
pollito
Poultry Diseases - blood
poussin
Reagent Kits, Diagnostic - veterinary
Reagents
Research Notes
sucre du sang
technique analytique
tecnicas analiticas
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Summary:The purposes of this study were to 1) measure blood glucose values in a flock of broiler chicks tentatively diagnosed as having spiking mortality syndrome (SMS), and 2) compare the blood glucose values using two methods: the Chemstrip bG visual method and the Chemstrip bG Accu-Chek III monitor method. Results indicated that Chemstrip bG reagent test strips can be used successfully to assay blood glucose values in chicks with SMS and that these strips will detect hypoglycemia when hypoglycemia is present. Readings obtained by the visual method were as reliable as those obtained by the more expensive and time-consuming digital electronic monitor method. Blood glucose values were lowest in the chicks with the most severe clinical signs. Malassimilation is a differential diagnosis for hypoglycemia among neonatal mammals, and blood glucose values are lower in inappetent or starving chicks. Therefore, the hypothesis that gastrointestinal or endocrine disease could be major etiologies of hypoglycemia and spiking mortality should be investigated.
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ISSN:0005-2086
1938-4351
DOI:10.2307/1591890